Well after months waiting, surfing the forum eagerly looking at everyone else's pride and joy's ours finally arrived. We picked it up and wouldn't you know it, it rained solidly for two days, (a very sad story) in fact record breaking rains. I sat inside looking at my van sinking into our front lawn, then today finally some sunny weather, I winched it off the lawn (a little exaggeration) and put her in the driveway.
Got her all set up, ran over it from head to toe and now a little sore and exhausted, but no issues to speak of so far, turned everything on, gave it a go and so far so good. I must say I had a bit of a list of things to check off after reading forum messages (great inspiration) and it would seem that Jayco have listened to problems and suggestions and have made alterations which meant less work in preparation.
The new LED lights are great, they are very bright and effective lights, and the bi-mode they have a night light function also, they turn to minimal LED's which are blue, what a great feature. Also all the switches are together and off the floor level which is great, master switch for the lights is good also.
So we added a few things to the van, an extra water tank, external shower mounted at the rear of the van, HWS and electric pump, second gas bottle, water tank and battery level gauge, TV/DVD set up to make it a little more comfortable. Decided against putting the stereo in, bought a good little alarm/FM/DAB radio with iPhone and iPad charger build in, cheaper and better sound quality.
So only a few little wires required some protection work underneath, for the most part I was happy with the protection and placement of most of the fittings underneath. I have ordered a Stone Stomper, Christian has been very helpful, his product looks great cant wait to fit it up next week on our way through to the Flinders Rangers.
We have put rubber matting in all of the drawers and cupboard, little storage caddies for the pantry, I got some carpet left-over from a flooring place in town, I have covered the floor in the camper and the end storage areas as a little more padding/protection and run over all the screws and fittings with either locktite or WD40, then we stocked her up. I did a bit of tidying up of the coaxial cables on the aerial, works a treat now and nothing to catch on low trees.
Have a few more little mod's we are going to do, but in reality I am happy with the level of storage (not that we are packing a lot), we learnt to minimise after living in a soft floor camper for a while.
A few photo's below, cant wait to get on the road.
Got her all set up, ran over it from head to toe and now a little sore and exhausted, but no issues to speak of so far, turned everything on, gave it a go and so far so good. I must say I had a bit of a list of things to check off after reading forum messages (great inspiration) and it would seem that Jayco have listened to problems and suggestions and have made alterations which meant less work in preparation.
The new LED lights are great, they are very bright and effective lights, and the bi-mode they have a night light function also, they turn to minimal LED's which are blue, what a great feature. Also all the switches are together and off the floor level which is great, master switch for the lights is good also.
So we added a few things to the van, an extra water tank, external shower mounted at the rear of the van, HWS and electric pump, second gas bottle, water tank and battery level gauge, TV/DVD set up to make it a little more comfortable. Decided against putting the stereo in, bought a good little alarm/FM/DAB radio with iPhone and iPad charger build in, cheaper and better sound quality.
So only a few little wires required some protection work underneath, for the most part I was happy with the protection and placement of most of the fittings underneath. I have ordered a Stone Stomper, Christian has been very helpful, his product looks great cant wait to fit it up next week on our way through to the Flinders Rangers.
We have put rubber matting in all of the drawers and cupboard, little storage caddies for the pantry, I got some carpet left-over from a flooring place in town, I have covered the floor in the camper and the end storage areas as a little more padding/protection and run over all the screws and fittings with either locktite or WD40, then we stocked her up. I did a bit of tidying up of the coaxial cables on the aerial, works a treat now and nothing to catch on low trees.
Have a few more little mod's we are going to do, but in reality I am happy with the level of storage (not that we are packing a lot), we learnt to minimise after living in a soft floor camper for a while.
A few photo's below, cant wait to get on the road.
